Panel: Landis guilty of doping - Yahoo! News: "Floyd Landis lost his expensive and explosive doping case Thursday when the arbitrators upheld the results of a test that showed the 2006 Tour de France champion used synthetic testosterone to fuel his spectacular comeback victory, The Associated Press has learned."
Dopers Suck!
Tour de France 2007: Rasmussen pulled out of Tour, fired by Rabobank: "After 10 days in the yellow jersey, Michael Rasmussen appeared to have beaten back all challengers in his pursuit of the top spot on the Tour de France's final podium in Paris this coming Sunday"
That's it Road Cycling and the Tour are Officially Dead. Astana is gone, Cofidis is gone
"Nature culls sick herds of animals. Cycling is just going through a natural culling . . . sad to say, but true. The riders and teams that have chosen to be clean will survive this." -- Jonathan Vaughters, manager of U.S.-based Team Slipstream
"The Tour is Dead, Long Live the Tour!"
So it looks like some more big names may come tumbling down from the high peaks of cycling society. Seems that the Quick Step team has been raided by the Belgian 5-0.
Quick Step denies police raids focused on team
Quick Step, which employs 2005 world champion and one-day specialist Boonen, as well as Olympic and reigning world champion Paolo Bettini, had been plunged into controversy when ex-rider Johan Museeuw, a former world champion, admitted that he had doped in his career.
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